Spring 2007
The Korea Colloquium is held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in Room S250 (CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street) unless otherwise indicated.
The Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations is held on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-2pm in Room S153 (CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street) unless otherwise indicated.
The Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology are held on Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:00 in Room 14A of the Peabody Museum (11 Divinity Avenue).
Thursday, February 1 - Korea Colloquium - Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Todd A. Henry
Assistant Professor of Modern East Asian History, Colorado State University
"Investments in 'Cultural Rule': The Politics of Japanese Assimilation at the 1929 Korea Exposition"
Monday, February 12 - J.F. Kennedy Jr. Forum - Sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School, the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute, and the Harvard Asia Center
Mme. Park Geun Hye
Member of National Assembly, Former Chairperson of the Grand National Party, Rep. of Korea
"Korea in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects"
J.F. Kennedy Forum, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, 6 p.m. [Press Release]
Friday, February 16 - Special Event - Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum, the Reischauer Institute, and the KSG International Negotiation Club
"Hallyu (Korean Wave) in Asia: A Dialogue"
Jung-Sook Park
Media Professional, Actress, Visiting Fellow, Columbia University
Jin-Young Park
Music and Film Manager and Producer
Moderator: Carter J. Eckert. Panelists: David Leheny, Eileen Chow, Ian Condry, David R. McCann
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Thursday, March 1 - Korea Colloquium
Joy Kim
Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Princeton University
"Dictating Dress, Prescribing Posture: Sumptuary Codes and Slavery in Late Choson Korea"
Thursday, March 8 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Kang Bong Won
Director, Gyeongju University Museum
"Mortuary Practices of the Silla Kingdom in Ancient Korea"
Thursday, March 15 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Choi Jongtaik
Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology and Art History, Korea University
"The Development of Ceramic Technologies on the Korean Peninsula and its Relationships with Adjacent Regions"
Thursday, March 15 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Keiji Nakatsuji
Professor of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and
Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
"Prime Minister in Command: Koizumi and the North Korean Abduction Question"
CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), 1737 Cambridge Street, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Monday, April 2 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center
Liselotte Odgaard
Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center; Aarhus University, Denmark
"Chinese Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia: Japan, Korea and Taiwan"
Discussant: Robert Ross, Boston College
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S153, 12:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 5 - Korea Colloquium
Munyol Yi
Novelist; Writer-in-Residence, Korea Institute
"Haunted by Nightmare: Enlightenment Paranoia in Korean Literature"
Thursday, April 19 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Pak Yangjin
Professor, Department of Archaeology, and Dean, International Studies & Programs, Chungnam National University
"Korean Bronze Metallurgy and Rice Cultivation: Multiple Paths and Diverse Sources"
Thursday, April 19 - Special Event - Sponsored by the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart
Poetry Reading
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 24 - Kim Koo Forum
Kathleen Stephens
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific
"U.S.-Korea Relations: The 2007 Agenda"
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 26 - Comparative Economics Seminar - Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Korea Institute, and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Akio Kawato
Chief Economist, Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan; former Ambassador of Japan to Uzbekistan
"Japan: Between Russia, China, Korea, the US and the Deep Blue Sea"
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050, 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 26 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Kim Gyongtaek
Professor, Department of Archaeology, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage
"Approaches to Complex Society in Ancient Korea: A Critical Review of Discussions on the Complex Society in Korea"
Friday, April 27 - Workshop - Co-sponsored with the Reischauer Institute
"Workshop on National Language and Colonial Modernity in Japan and Korea"
Organized by Christopher Hanscom, Korea Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, and Seth Jacobowitz, Reischauer Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Porte Seminar Room S250, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
[schedule]
Friday, April 27 - Special Event
"Korea DMZ Workshop Public Event"
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall, Room 109, 48 Quincy Street, 5:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, May 2 - Korea Colloquium, co-sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive
Film Screening: "Never Forever"
Note: The film's director, Gina Kim, and the producer, Andrew Fierberg, will introduce the screening and answer questions after the film.
Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.
[link to Harvard Film Archive]
Wednesday, May 16 - Kim Koo Forum
"The Six-Party Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Programs: Problems and Prospects"
Evans Revere
President, Korea Society
CGIS South, Porte Seminar Room (S250), 2nd floor, 1730 Cambridge Street, 4 p.m.
